If I run a program that makes my life easier at your expense, that is an exploit, a hack, or illegal automation.
Malware is when my dumbass friend got a fishingbot that ALSO hat malware on it, which compromised his account and lead to endless mocking (fishing in WoW is mindless but is not necessary nor highly profitable nor prestigious- he should never have risked his account for such foolery).
But anyway, a bot program isn't inherently malware. You might not like it, but that's not what malware is.
It's ignorant and incorrect to pretend that it doesn't effect Lockheed. Many employees are on bases and can't work. Others directly report to government employees who are furloughed and hand their product over to other government employees who are furloughed. I think the link even says this.
It's a pretty big deal, and that shouldn't be surprising.
Wouldn't the best way to defeat the profitability of "high frequency trading" be to have a very small CONSTANT? A percentage is just the government skimming off the top.
Now keep in mind- I'm not an expert. If HFT normally operates within margins of 0.01% to 0.05% profitability, then this tax will work.
Nintendo is doing fine. I'm not even sure Sony and Microsoft are losing cash.
We don't need some dumb government oversight, ok? It's just fucking consoles, there's only a few companies competing, and two of them suck at making consoles. The market will solve this just fine.
"Lets take untested bullshit tech that causes a myriad of failures, and MANDATE IT ON ALL WEAPONS!!!"
Also this will make guns super expensive.
And nonfunctional.
And EMP vulnerable.
No, this idea is horrible. I'm sure there's some people who would like this on their guns, but for right now not even all police departments are on board (and they are the one group of people who would actually benefit, as police are sometimes attacked with their own weapons).
This is such a ludicrous power grab. They are taking a virgin tech and trying to make it MANDATORY. Obviously, no one will allow this to go live, so then they'll go cry about how the "NRA is a bunch of villains who only care about the gun industry".
Always on does NOTHING to combat hackers in multiplayer. You simply have the rule that if you GO ONLINE, then blah blah blah. Example: It's trivial to cheat in D2 locally, but almost impossible online.
The fact that they are fucking CONSOLES is what stops casual pirating. Hardcore pirates never give a shit, and will have just one more BIOS hack workaround.
All it does is shit all over poor people, really.
Getting rid of community modding? That's also a pretty terrible idea. In fact, your whole post really strikes me as terrible.
Essentially, the point is "why would they come here"?
And there's plenty of reasons. For instance, if humanity had that level of technology, we might be concerned with with an alien race hitting some tech singularity and coming to kill us all with underdeveloped morals and overdeveloped beam weaponry- we might want to monitor, meet, or conquer to ensure that such a thing doesn't happen. An alien race could certainly have a policy of exterminating anything that is sentient or surpasses a certain tech marker (FTL drives, grey goo, or something we haven't thought of yet). Alternatively, a race could seek out sentient sufferers and seek to aid that- if humanity reaches that level of advancement, instead of sitting back with a "prime directive" mentality, we may instead move in, ameliorate, offer immortality and uploads, etc.
I suspect FTL is either impossible or has not been invented in Virgo Supercluster. It seems unlikely that we would be in the brief window of time from which it is invented until we see visible signs of such a civilization.
When we had a Democrat majority Congress and a Republican President, this was a REPUBLICAN problem. Now with a Democrat majority Senate, a Republican Majority house, and a popular two-term Democrat President.... this is a REPUBLICAN problem.
Bull. Fucking Shit. You just want to suck blue dick because you are on team blue. Get it through your head- both sides want this. If either didn't, IT WOULD NOT BE A THING!
No, I think I can get the book at that cost because that's how much it fucking costs. I don't need to be upcharged because I'm white, or American, or any other bullshit. This is simple capitalism. If the cost of the book is too high for a Thai, that's a shame. If the cost is low enough for him, that's fantastic. But that doesn't mean I need to pay more, or have some goddamned Whiteboy tax. Take your imagined privilege-industry and shove it up your ass. I'll pay the actual price for the book, thanks much.
Remember the 5-4 decision saying that the government could take your house, give you a few bucks for it, and then hand the land over to someone with a business plan to build a mall? That was all "conservative" justices in the 4, with the swing siding with the "liberals" for the majority.
Who gives a shit? We don't have to view their shitty ads. If that makes them collapse or find a new way to charge for content, great. There's not some magical genie in the sky demanding that we view overly obtrustive ads. MY computer does what I want it to do. That doesn't include trying to hawk someone's shitty wares, and it DEFINITELY doesn't include doing so in a disruptive way that abuses the fuck out of java, javascript, and flash to pop up, pop under, full screen, volumejack, and sometimes drop exploit code on my box.
"I'm doing this immoral thing, but unlike the rest of the net where adblock is rare, enough of my users are sophisticated enough to jump through the hoops because we suck Satan's dick so much. What do I do next?"
It's convenient that historically censor happy groups have finally found some fashion in which they may claim to be harmed by speech itself.
"Motif of harmful sensation" was removed from wikipedia, but now the claim is that mentioning certain topics is the equivalent of the basilisk's gaze. I'm sorry, but your right to swing your fist doesn't stop a mile away from my face because the motion triggers something in me. We can't have free speech if we assume people's psyche's are made of dust and the wind from an open mouth will cause them to blow away. Naturally, the censors have then logically produced the fact that we can no longer have free speech.
Obviously no "civil rights" are being violated. But JUST PRETEND:
What about news and reporting over people who are being abused all around the world? Should such NEWS be banned, as it clearly documents civil rights violations? What about history books that cover past tragedies? Those were "civil rights" violations (and often much worse). Should their mention be banned?
The difference, of course, is that porn titilates the viewer. That's really all this is about. Their logic falls flat on its face, as the documentation (and pictures of) "civil rights violations" have never been subject to ANY manner of censorship (with the occasional exception of a government trying to hide what it is doing by preventing proof of it from getting out).
The idea here is that a person (presumably a man, because underlying any law like this is the assumption than men, and men's thoughts, are evil), sitting at their desk at home, is capable of injuring someone through their thoughts. Men aren't just evil in the eyes of someone writing such a law- they are evil WIZARDS!
I'm going to echo "question of scale' guy. If your cigarette habit was two packs a month, you'd be fine. It took years to correlate smoking with all the bad things it is correlated with, and that's not at two packs a month. A cannabis smoker doesn't have these issues because he smokes so damned little compared to the nichead.
Gun companies doing this crap is to be expected, given the wild cash and prizes that have been thrown at professional sports and car manufacturers over the years. The thing where cars can't take damage is due to that too.
Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. It was a bunch of gun grabbing assholes who made up an alternate interpretation in 20C, twisting the plain words and intentions of the founders. They have deceived you. Heller reaffirmed what was understood by essentially all Americans for the entire history of this country have always known.
In addition to all the excellent other points, there's also the fact that it would render a decent chunk of the game's NPCs bisexual. Given how goddamned rare bisexuality actually is (and that it's not just a throwaway part of a person's life), that's kind of ludicrous.
That being said, a combination of that and characters that are actually gay could have happened, and probably would have if they could do more than 5 companions per character.
This is a bit long, but I don't see anyone else saying it, so I will. I power-played this game from launch to max level, and then for a few months after, until it was obvious my friends weren't going to keep at it- the TLDR version is that this isn't about shitting on gays at all, but instead money. Ok here's why:
If you play the main plot of TOR, you quickly find out that each of the four "base classes" on each "empire" or "republic" side (so eight base classes total) has their own plotline. Each plotline takes you through the same planets in the same order as the other base classes in your faction, with the exception that each faction has two starting planets- one for the Jedi/Sith, and the other for the tech heroes.
For instance: if you are a smuggler, you begin by pulling into the same planet that the Troopers start on, and your ship gets stolen. You then fall in with a kind of small time crime boss, and when he is assassinated his right-hand man becomes yours.
The smuggler can become a "scoundrel" or a "gunslinger"- the two "advanced classes". The "scoundrel" has a shotgun that has close ranged positional attacks, and a stealth belt, as well as some brawler type moves. You also gain some heals. The "gunslinger" has a belt that creates a portable force-field cover that can knock people back, and they use two weapons. The "scoundrel" is essentially a rogue with a healing spec, and the "gunslinger" is kind of a ranger or archer role. Which you pick has NO RELEVANCE on your plot, even though they play differently.
The "trooper" can become two types of thing as well (a character with a shield generator and the best armor who can tank or deal damage, or a character with a super advanced huge gun who can deal damage or use the gun to heal), as can the "Jedi Knight" (dual wield damage guy or single wield guy who can tank) and the "Jedi Consular" (force caster/healer or a stealthy two-bladed light saber guy). Both of these start on the planet with the Jedi Academy.
Meanwhile, on the Sith side, all of these choices are mirrored- the Imperial Agent can become an "Operative", who has the exact same powers as the "Scoundrel", or a "Sniper", who has the same powers as the "Gunslinger". But all the "Imperial" side plots are TOTALLY DIFFERENT than the Republic ones- there are EIGHT total paths you can follow in this game, based on all eight character types you can start the game with (Sith Inquisitor, Jedi Consular, Sith Warrior, Jedi Knight, Imperial Operative, Smuggler, Bounty Hunter, Trooper). As you play through, you get "companion characters"- you get one very early, and then others as you play through your plotline. You can have one with your character at most times, but you can't hang out with all of them at once unless you are on your ship. Each has a series of mini plotlines that you can play through.
Importantly, THESE ARE THE CHARACTERS YOU CAN BE ROMANTIC WITH. In your plotline, you meet some NPCs that are just mentioned once or twice, and that will attempt to seduce you, or you can attempt to seduce them. That's not what anyone who wanted same-sex relations in this game was hoping for, and that's what this planet seems to be offering. The companion characters are all individually voice acted by professional actors and have a ludicrous number of things they can say, ways they can respond, etc. It is seriously high production value.
As an example: My smuggler is female. The first guy you meet, Corso Riggs, is a possible "romantic companion" for a female smuggler. Your wookie companion is not, and neither are the female companions or the fish-head alien. If you accept Corso's advances, he will prove to you that he's both desired by others and totally into just you, a reasonably common romance novel thing, and you can even marry him. A male character has similar options with his two female companions- for instance, Akavi Spaar, a rough and tumble alien warrioress, can fall for your advances, as can Risha, a human woman.
"Hey, how best to censor someone saying something I disagree with?"
Any trick that will ultimately work for you, will work for some religious group trying to shut down opposed discourse. I'm sorry your ex had such terrible choice in mates before you, but I don't think there's a way to silence him saying crazyass bullshit.
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I would much prefer they simply ban the bot accounts. Bots are horrible for the game. Last thing I would want is your suggestion coming to pass.
That is 100% not malware bro.
If I run a program that makes my life easier at your expense, that is an exploit, a hack, or illegal automation.
Malware is when my dumbass friend got a fishingbot that ALSO hat malware on it, which compromised his account and lead to endless mocking (fishing in WoW is mindless but is not necessary nor highly profitable nor prestigious- he should never have risked his account for such foolery).
But anyway, a bot program isn't inherently malware. You might not like it, but that's not what malware is.
It's ignorant and incorrect to pretend that it doesn't effect Lockheed. Many employees are on bases and can't work. Others directly report to government employees who are furloughed and hand their product over to other government employees who are furloughed. I think the link even says this.
It's a pretty big deal, and that shouldn't be surprising.
It's my alarm clock.
It's NOT the government's alarm clock for me.
Wouldn't the best way to defeat the profitability of "high frequency trading" be to have a very small CONSTANT? A percentage is just the government skimming off the top.
Now keep in mind- I'm not an expert. If HFT normally operates within margins of 0.01% to 0.05% profitability, then this tax will work.
Nintendo is doing fine. I'm not even sure Sony and Microsoft are losing cash.
We don't need some dumb government oversight, ok? It's just fucking consoles, there's only a few companies competing, and two of them suck at making consoles. The market will solve this just fine.
"Lets take untested bullshit tech that causes a myriad of failures, and MANDATE IT ON ALL WEAPONS!!!"
Also this will make guns super expensive.
And nonfunctional.
And EMP vulnerable.
No, this idea is horrible. I'm sure there's some people who would like this on their guns, but for right now not even all police departments are on board (and they are the one group of people who would actually benefit, as police are sometimes attacked with their own weapons).
This is such a ludicrous power grab. They are taking a virgin tech and trying to make it MANDATORY. Obviously, no one will allow this to go live, so then they'll go cry about how the "NRA is a bunch of villains who only care about the gun industry".
Dirty, dirty politics at work. Bastards.
"Big giants chunks of debris would be no fun, nor would it be if the missile had radioactive material and destroying it turned it into a dirty bomb."
No, that would be the BEST CASE scenario.
If the missile has radioactive material then:
1)- It is already a dirty bomb. Destroying it minimizes the damage.
2)- IT IS A NUKE. Destroying it saves likely a city.
Neither of these are likely, but you'd rather 1000 dirty bombs than one fissile warhead.
I can't think of any time I would rather drive a Segway than a car.
I could think of times I would rather Segway than bike, or walk. Segways are far too slow to replace a car for any meaningful distance.
Always on does NOTHING to combat hackers in multiplayer. You simply have the rule that if you GO ONLINE, then blah blah blah. Example: It's trivial to cheat in D2 locally, but almost impossible online.
The fact that they are fucking CONSOLES is what stops casual pirating. Hardcore pirates never give a shit, and will have just one more BIOS hack workaround.
All it does is shit all over poor people, really.
Getting rid of community modding? That's also a pretty terrible idea. In fact, your whole post really strikes me as terrible.
Essentially, the point is "why would they come here"?
And there's plenty of reasons. For instance, if humanity had that level of technology, we might be concerned with with an alien race hitting some tech singularity and coming to kill us all with underdeveloped morals and overdeveloped beam weaponry- we might want to monitor, meet, or conquer to ensure that such a thing doesn't happen. An alien race could certainly have a policy of exterminating anything that is sentient or surpasses a certain tech marker (FTL drives, grey goo, or something we haven't thought of yet). Alternatively, a race could seek out sentient sufferers and seek to aid that- if humanity reaches that level of advancement, instead of sitting back with a "prime directive" mentality, we may instead move in, ameliorate, offer immortality and uploads, etc.
I suspect FTL is either impossible or has not been invented in Virgo Supercluster. It seems unlikely that we would be in the brief window of time from which it is invented until we see visible signs of such a civilization.
WAIT WAIT HOLD UP DAWG
When we had a Democrat majority Congress and a Republican President, this was a REPUBLICAN problem.
Now with a Democrat majority Senate, a Republican Majority house, and a popular two-term Democrat President.... this is a REPUBLICAN problem.
Bull. Fucking Shit. You just want to suck blue dick because you are on team blue. Get it through your head- both sides want this. If either didn't, IT WOULD NOT BE A THING!
No, I think I can get the book at that cost because that's how much it fucking costs. I don't need to be upcharged because I'm white, or American, or any other bullshit. This is simple capitalism. If the cost of the book is too high for a Thai, that's a shame. If the cost is low enough for him, that's fantastic. But that doesn't mean I need to pay more, or have some goddamned Whiteboy tax. Take your imagined privilege-industry and shove it up your ass. I'll pay the actual price for the book, thanks much.
Maybe because Ginsberg fucking sucks too?
Remember the 5-4 decision saying that the government could take your house, give you a few bucks for it, and then hand the land over to someone with a business plan to build a mall? That was all "conservative" justices in the 4, with the swing siding with the "liberals" for the majority.
This should have been 9 fucking 0.
Who gives a shit? We don't have to view their shitty ads. If that makes them collapse or find a new way to charge for content, great. There's not some magical genie in the sky demanding that we view overly obtrustive ads. MY computer does what I want it to do. That doesn't include trying to hawk someone's shitty wares, and it DEFINITELY doesn't include doing so in a disruptive way that abuses the fuck out of java, javascript, and flash to pop up, pop under, full screen, volumejack, and sometimes drop exploit code on my box.
"I'm doing this immoral thing, but unlike the rest of the net where adblock is rare, enough of my users are sophisticated enough to jump through the hoops because we suck Satan's dick so much. What do I do next?"
Get fucked.
It's convenient that historically censor happy groups have finally found some fashion in which they may claim to be harmed by speech itself.
"Motif of harmful sensation" was removed from wikipedia, but now the claim is that mentioning certain topics is the equivalent of the basilisk's gaze. I'm sorry, but your right to swing your fist doesn't stop a mile away from my face because the motion triggers something in me. We can't have free speech if we assume people's psyche's are made of dust and the wind from an open mouth will cause them to blow away. Naturally, the censors have then logically produced the fact that we can no longer have free speech.
We must oppose such policies.
Is unquestionably being threatened by such malarky as this.
We need to oppose this, stridently and unceasingly.
Obviously no "civil rights" are being violated. But JUST PRETEND:
What about news and reporting over people who are being abused all around the world? Should such NEWS be banned, as it clearly documents civil rights violations?
What about history books that cover past tragedies? Those were "civil rights" violations (and often much worse). Should their mention be banned?
The difference, of course, is that porn titilates the viewer. That's really all this is about. Their logic falls flat on its face, as the documentation (and pictures of) "civil rights violations" have never been subject to ANY manner of censorship (with the occasional exception of a government trying to hide what it is doing by preventing proof of it from getting out).
The idea here is that a person (presumably a man, because underlying any law like this is the assumption than men, and men's thoughts, are evil), sitting at their desk at home, is capable of injuring someone through their thoughts. Men aren't just evil in the eyes of someone writing such a law- they are evil WIZARDS!
I'm going to echo "question of scale' guy. If your cigarette habit was two packs a month, you'd be fine. It took years to correlate smoking with all the bad things it is correlated with, and that's not at two packs a month. A cannabis smoker doesn't have these issues because he smokes so damned little compared to the nichead.
Gun companies doing this crap is to be expected, given the wild cash and prizes that have been thrown at professional sports and car manufacturers over the years. The thing where cars can't take damage is due to that too.
Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. It was a bunch of gun grabbing assholes who made up an alternate interpretation in 20C, twisting the plain words and intentions of the founders. They have deceived you. Heller reaffirmed what was understood by essentially all Americans for the entire history of this country have always known.
In addition to all the excellent other points, there's also the fact that it would render a decent chunk of the game's NPCs bisexual. Given how goddamned rare bisexuality actually is (and that it's not just a throwaway part of a person's life), that's kind of ludicrous.
That being said, a combination of that and characters that are actually gay could have happened, and probably would have if they could do more than 5 companions per character.
This is a bit long, but I don't see anyone else saying it, so I will. I power-played this game from launch to max level, and then for a few months after, until it was obvious my friends weren't going to keep at it- the TLDR version is that this isn't about shitting on gays at all, but instead money. Ok here's why:
If you play the main plot of TOR, you quickly find out that each of the four "base classes" on each "empire" or "republic" side (so eight base classes total) has their own plotline. Each plotline takes you through the same planets in the same order as the other base classes in your faction, with the exception that each faction has two starting planets- one for the Jedi/Sith, and the other for the tech heroes.
For instance: if you are a smuggler, you begin by pulling into the same planet that the Troopers start on, and your ship gets stolen. You then fall in with a kind of small time crime boss, and when he is assassinated his right-hand man becomes yours.
The smuggler can become a "scoundrel" or a "gunslinger"- the two "advanced classes". The "scoundrel" has a shotgun that has close ranged positional attacks, and a stealth belt, as well as some brawler type moves. You also gain some heals. The "gunslinger" has a belt that creates a portable force-field cover that can knock people back, and they use two weapons. The "scoundrel" is essentially a rogue with a healing spec, and the "gunslinger" is kind of a ranger or archer role. Which you pick has NO RELEVANCE on your plot, even though they play differently.
The "trooper" can become two types of thing as well (a character with a shield generator and the best armor who can tank or deal damage, or a character with a super advanced huge gun who can deal damage or use the gun to heal), as can the "Jedi Knight" (dual wield damage guy or single wield guy who can tank) and the "Jedi Consular" (force caster/healer or a stealthy two-bladed light saber guy). Both of these start on the planet with the Jedi Academy.
Meanwhile, on the Sith side, all of these choices are mirrored- the Imperial Agent can become an "Operative", who has the exact same powers as the "Scoundrel", or a "Sniper", who has the same powers as the "Gunslinger". But all the "Imperial" side plots are TOTALLY DIFFERENT than the Republic ones- there are EIGHT total paths you can follow in this game, based on all eight character types you can start the game with (Sith Inquisitor, Jedi Consular, Sith Warrior, Jedi Knight, Imperial Operative, Smuggler, Bounty Hunter, Trooper). As you play through, you get "companion characters"- you get one very early, and then others as you play through your plotline. You can have one with your character at most times, but you can't hang out with all of them at once unless you are on your ship. Each has a series of mini plotlines that you can play through.
Importantly, THESE ARE THE CHARACTERS YOU CAN BE ROMANTIC WITH. In your plotline, you meet some NPCs that are just mentioned once or twice, and that will attempt to seduce you, or you can attempt to seduce them. That's not what anyone who wanted same-sex relations in this game was hoping for, and that's what this planet seems to be offering. The companion characters are all individually voice acted by professional actors and have a ludicrous number of things they can say, ways they can respond, etc. It is seriously high production value.
As an example: My smuggler is female. The first guy you meet, Corso Riggs, is a possible "romantic companion" for a female smuggler. Your wookie companion is not, and neither are the female companions or the fish-head alien. If you accept Corso's advances, he will prove to you that he's both desired by others and totally into just you, a reasonably common romance novel thing, and you can even marry him. A male character has similar options with his two female companions- for instance, Akavi Spaar, a rough and tumble alien warrioress, can fall for your advances, as can Risha, a human woman.
So everyone was expecti
"Hey, how best to censor someone saying something I disagree with?"
Any trick that will ultimately work for you, will work for some religious group trying to shut down opposed discourse. I'm sorry your ex had such terrible choice in mates before you, but I don't think there's a way to silence him saying crazyass bullshit.
Well, for self defense you might need a lot more rounds. Second Amendment isn't about hunting.